The blighter's manner was so cold and unchummy that I bit the bullet and had a dash at being airy.

The author tells a story wherein a missionary friend of his was invited by unbelievers on a train ride to play cards. The friend declined, saying that he did not bring his hands with him. He explained...

That story I told you as we arrived? About the man who killed the former master of this castle and raped his wife? Did you think it a fairy tale? No, his blood runs in my veins. I was bred to do what...

Take this neat little equation here. It tells me all the ways an electron can make itself comfortable in or around an atom. That's the logic of it. The poetry of it is that the equation tells me how s...

One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irritably into the middle of the flames, which made Thor feel slightly better and made all the dwarfs fe...

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western...

My funeral, the Blue Man said. Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came. Why? Did you ever wonder? Why people gather when others die? Why people feel they should?It is becau...

My God, are you even real? she whispered. Holding her gaze, a sad smile lifted his mouth. I think I am. You make me feel like I’m in a dream, Emily confessed, wrapping her arms around his neck. Like I...

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese -toasted, mostly

It’s a beautiful smile. One that brightens the rat-infested attic room. No one has ever smiled like that at me. No one. Everything inside me twists with the need to keep her close.I should be pissed....

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

I want to share this bed with you, though, I breathed. I want you to hold me. Stars flickered to life in his eyes. Always, he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. Always.

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since ideology had anything to do with it. Not without cunning, Fat Man and Little Boy gradually mutated...

I didn't doubt the potential value of paying attention to subconscious cues...problem was, my inner voice resembled Chicken Little: it was screaming that I was about to die, but it did that almost eve...

I didn't burn down anyone’s house! I didn’t. I wouldn’t!Maddie looked at Jacob.You know I wouldn’t. I didn’t kill you when I had the chance!

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

Hey, ! There is a way out. Come to beautiful Oasis. No crime, no madness, no bad stuff of any kind, a brand new home, home on the range, no or antelope but hey, accentuate the positive, there never is...

He odiado las palabras y las he amado, y espero haber estado a su altura.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.